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Fort Jefferson, Fla., March 26,1862 7 PM
Dear Wife & Children
I wrote you three days ago and will drop you another line for I was so fortunate & happy to receive yours of March 2d this PM was very glad to hear you were all well. I presume this will go from Key West that is if Smith goes in the steam in the same Mail with the other for the Mail Boat leaves here early in the morning. I am better than I was at the time of writing before so as to be out considerable I have a rather bad Diahroar that is easier than it was this morning think I shall be well of it in a day or two I never had the Headache before this scrape in my life. We are in the extreme southern end of Dixie away from everything and everybody we get no news till it is three weeks old it is rumored here that Manassas Richmond Norfolk & New Orleans are taken but dont suppose the whole of

Fort Jefferson, Fla., March 26,1862 7 PM
Dear Wife & Children
I wrote you three days ago and will drop you another line for I was so fortunate & happy to receive yours of March 2d this PM was very glad to hear you were all well. I presume this will go from Key West that is if Smith goes in the steam in the same Mail with the other for the Mail Boat leaves here early in the morning. I am better than I was at the time of writing before so as to be out considerable I have a rather bad Diahroar that is easier than it was this morning think I shall be well of it in a day or two I never had the Headache before this scrape in my life. We are in the extreme southern end of Dixie away from everything and everybody we get no news till it is three weeks old it is rumored here that Manassas Richmond Norfolk & New Orleans are taken but dont suppose the whole of